a while back someone posted a pdf file of the synthesis.
i formatted my computer and dont have it any more.
the link it was at doesnt have it now.
does anyone have the file?
thanks.

Can you tell us the link it actually *were* at, that would probably help a lot.

He's probably talking about

Post 420423

(pHarmacist: "Synthesis of Ergot Alkaloids from Tryptophan", Tryptamine Chemistry),

Post 412911

(ChemisTris: "Total synthesis of (±)-Lysergic acid", Tryptamine Chemistry), Post 404790 (not existing) or

Post 404782

(Rhodium: "R.B. Woodward's Total Synthesis of Lysergic Acid", Tryptamine Chemistry)  

it was the first one.

Which was found by merely inputting "lysergic + total + syn" into the search engine field for this forum, during the last year, which resulted in the vast total of seven posts to go through    

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I went to that link the other day and the file wasnt there.
I assumed it had been taken down.